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Leicester City FC are 2015-2016 Premier League champions. Read that sentence several times. Leicester City, who were at the bottom of the table at one point last year, and needed to win seven out of their last nine games to avoid relegation. Leicester City, whose best ever finish before this season came in 1929, when they finished second in Division One. Yes, that very same Leicester City are now the kings of English football.

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri was sacked from Chelsea in 2004. Twelve years later on Sunday, his presence hung like a ghost over Stamford Bridge as second-placed Tottenham Hotspur played defending champions Chelsea on Monday. To stay in the title race, Tottenham Hotspur needed to win. Draw or lose, and the title was Leicester's.

As the whole of Leicester watched with bated breath, Tottenham threw a spanner in the works. They weren't giving up – their talisman striker Harry Kane put one in in the 35th minute, followed by Heung-Min Son in the 44th minute. This wasn't over...or so it seemed (video below).

Chelsea had lost their title months ago. But from some corner of the ground, maybe they found the hidden reserve to do it for a former manager. Tottenham took their eyes off the ball, and Gary Cahill put Chelsea back in the game, scoring from a corner in the 58th minute.

And then, at a tense Stamford Bridge, Eden Hazard scored an incredible curler seven minutes before time, to set off wild celebrations in the East Midlands town of Leicester.

And the celebrations, oh, they were well-deserved. Leicester's players had converged on their talismanic striker Jamie Vardy's house to watch the Chelsea-Tottenham match together. It had been a topsy-turvy match, but when the final whistle sounded...

And the scenes were similar...in the bars, pubs and streets of Leicester. Who would have believed it? Champions of England. Leicester City.